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| A permanent international security organization established in 1919 to maintain peace. Most of the world nations belonged to this, and it was set up by the Treaty of Versailles. It was significant because it led to the creation of the United Nation in 1946. |
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| War Communism was a Bolshevik movement in 1918-1920, during the Russian Civil War. Its two goals were to supply the Red Army with food and weapons and to introduce communism to Russia. Its major aspects were that all factories and factory workers were taken over by the government, private trading was banned, money lost value, and food was rationed in the cities. This was significant because it set up Russia from turning into a communist nation. |
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| Nicknamed Il Duce, Mussolini lived from 1883-1945 in Italy, where he was the dictator for 21 years, until 1943. He centralized political power and influenced Hitler and his Nazism, he influenced leaders to become dictators. He was significant for those reasons and because he forced Europe into World War II. |
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| An anti-Jewish pogrom (an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group) who destroyed and attacked Jewish shops and burned synagogues. They burned and destroyed on the night of November 9th, 1938, and helped mark the beginning of the Holocaust. |
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| The Wannsee Confrence was helped in the German town of Wannsee on January 20, 1942. It was the German government meeting to plan the Final Solution, which would be a solution of what to do with the “racially inferior beings”. It was significant because it made the decisions of making the final solution a bureaucratic policy, to get rid of the Jews completely, and it was a turning point for the Holocaust and almost granted permission for the Jews to be exterminated. |
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| The Nuremberg Laws were established in 1935 by the Germans. The laws stripped the Jews of their citizenship and prohibited German-Jew marriage and sex. These laws were significant because they promoted legal hatred among the Jews and helped identify who was a Jew. |
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